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by spuz 6y ago
The answer to "why do people spend so much on Apple hardware?" used to be that they would offer fast easy and sometimes free repairs and replacements at their genius bar stores even when the product was out of warranty. I guess th
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by spuz 6y ago
What does "work for P+L" mean?
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by spuz 6y ago
The blended wing body looks very different from a V shaped body.
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by spuz 6y ago
There was a good comment about this on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/ini2aw/do... Essentially - it's easy to mis-read the paper tests and there's a small portion of
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by spuz 6y ago
> It is painfully obvious that we would act much worse under anarchy. The article makes many points against this. It would be better to take those and refute them rather than simply saying "it's painfully obvious".
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Either that email address sends mail to your inbox or theirs - there's no way it could be some mix of the two.
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by spuz 6y ago
10ft per floor would make it 2120ft or 646m tall. The Burj Khalifa is 829m tall.
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by spuz 6y ago
Probably not. The star passes closer to Sgr A* than any other at 16 AU - about the distance between the Sun and Uranus - but that still puts it a long way from the black hole's event horizon. Despite its huge mass, Sgr A*'s Schwar
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by spuz 6y ago
Starlink can't come soon enough.
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by spuz 6y ago
This is explained in the article. It describes the pressure wave as moving slower than the speed of sound. It was not a shockwave which would be generated by high-explosives which would travel at the speed of sound and be much more deadly.
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by spuz 6y ago
If I've learnt anything from reading Hacker News for a few years it's that I would take this as a compliment that the article did a good in covering any aspect we might be curious about and answer any questions we might have had.
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by spuz 6y ago
How do we distinguish CNO neutrinos from those produced by proton-proton fusion?
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by spuz 6y ago
How is "06.08.2020" unambiguous?
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What improvements does the 4a have over the 3a?
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What numbers?
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by spuz 6y ago
You realise that the Hacker News front page is an algorithm that predicts what you should want?
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by spuz 6y ago
> This is entirely unconscious and we're generally not aware of it. I wonder if I'm unusual in that I can consciously control which nostril is open or closed. Most of the time the switching from side to side is unconscious but
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by spuz 6y ago
Does anyone know what teaching system is currently used to teach kids in the UK? Specifically Scotland if that matters.
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by spuz 6y ago
So my anti-procrastination setting kicked in just as I made this comment and now I can neither edit it or delete it. I made the same comment again with proper formatting of the json file.
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by spuz 6y ago
If you don't want to install a 3rd party extension (maybe it seems like too much of a risk for such a frivolous purpose), then you can make your own. Just download hacker95.css and create a file called manifest.json in the same directo
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by spuz 6y ago
If you don't want to install a 3rd party extension (maybe it seems like too much of a risk for such a frivolous purpose), then you can make your own. Just download hacker95.css and create a file called manifest.json in the same directo
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by spuz 6y ago
Yeah sorry - they messed up the links for the AMD and Intel versions of the laptop. The links that I gave originally linked to the AMD versions (even though they have i7 in the URL). The new correct URLs are: https://slimbook.es&
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by spuz 6y ago
Probably worth mentioning that they also do a non KDE version of these two laptops without the KDE branding on the lid and with your choice of a number of different Linux distros (or windows) pre-installed. Here is the 14" model: http
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by spuz 6y ago
So the 4000G series should be great for you, right?
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The post says they have improved on the ergonomics and the grip.
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by spuz 6y ago
The TS100 and the subsequent TS80 soldering irons were innovative for a few reasons. The heating element is in the tip rather than the body of the iron. This means it can reach a high temperature (e.g. 350C) using much less power than a tra
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by spuz 6y ago
The source of this figure is here and includes graphs that can help put the numbers in perspective: https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf
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Yeah exactly. Either they have been incredibly naive by thinking this would be seen as a purely positive gesture, or there is some business angle that we're not seeing.
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I really wonder how much pressure AirBnB must be feeling from hosts in order to go through with this idea. There's no way that they have done thinking it would not have some downsides. I really would like to know how they calculated th
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by spuz 6y ago
Could someone who is familiar with Rust clarify something for me? If I am using an IDE such as IDEA's Rust plugin, and I write some function which contains a type error, do I have to compile in order for the IDE to tell me there is a t

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